As a native speaker of two quite different Slavic language I can say I understand every word of what you wrote. But then again I also studied Russian for four years and Old Church Slavonic in my own free time, and I had practice with other Slavic languages as well. So I can understand what you say, but how would a monolingual Slavic speaker face this language?

To me, the question is not whether we should create a language all Slavs could understand, but rather to create a language which all Slavs could learn with ease and speak with it to others who have learned it. In other words, to create a Slavic Lingua Franca. Because whether we like it or not, this new Slavic language will have to be learned first as any other language is learned. Sure, to understand it you don't have to learn it, but to produce in it you would have to. So technically all we need is a language that all Slavs could learn easily and understand easily, not necessarily a language that has features of all Slavic languages (although it would be fun ), nor necessarily a compromise between them (Slavic languages have a very large amount of false friends). Thinking in that manner we wouldn't need cases nor a large amount of phonemes. It could be made very simple indeed, even if it would look strange to most Slavic speakers.

Slovianski seem a bit too complex and has a certain North Slavic (West+East Slavic) feeling to it.

If I remember correctly I was part of the group who started with the first experiments, but I haven't checked its progress in years. I remember there was a fellow named Gabriel or something like that who worked on it. I don't remember the circumstances due to which I left nor even the username I was using on the forum, come to think of it that forum doesn't even exist anymore. It must have been about 3-4 years or so. It is good to know the project is still going on. I don't doubt any idea I could produce has already been over-discussed.

Delodephius wrote:To me, the question is not whether we should create a language all Slavs could understand, but rather to create a language which all Slavs could learn with ease and speak with it to others who have learned it. In other words, to create a Slavic Lingua Franca. Because whether we like it or not, this new Slavic language will have to be learned first as any other language is learned. Sure, to understand it you don't have to learn it, but to produce in it you would have to. So technically all we need is a language that all Slavs could learn easily and understand easily, not necessarily a language that has features of all Slavic languages (although it would be fun ), nor necessarily a compromise between them (Slavic languages have a very large amount of false friends).

But we wanted to create bit different language, which covers in simplified and exception-less form features of all Slavic languages, in order to create tool for easier learning or understanding of national slavic languages. And also to reduce some "false friends" via using their etymological old slavic origin. (This is why in NS language is for example pair desnij-levij, pair pravij-krivij, etc.)

This is based on the idea of "receptive learning method", where a trainee knows a similar language and this knowledge enables him immediately to understand passively other language. (It was elaborated by french linguistics for the romance languages learning).

Novoslovienskij jazyk is imaginary evolution of the old slavonic language following the same processes from evolution of the national languages. Possible analogy is the modern literary Arabic. It is also derived from the qoran language and serves as the inter-arabic language.

I have never been to much fond of conlangs or auxlangs. I am more interested in creating new stuff for already existing languages that everyone could use. Creating my own language even though it could have a potential of being learned and used by few people is not really appealing to me. It is feels a bit lonely. Numbers play a big role in my language choice. Though I was interested in Old Church Slavonic for a long period I eventually lost interest in it simply because it was too isolated. First of all it was a dead language, second it was a language of religion and I'm not interested in religion at all. The third reason is actually related to for example your Novoslovienskij. Too limited. It can only be understood by Slavs, even if all Slavs for that matter, still just Slavs nonetheless.

I most likely wouldn't bother with Novoslovienskij, a natural Slavic language suits me better I guess. And of course there is also the fact that I don't really like the way Novoslovienskij is written, well the Cyrillic version anyway, the Latin one is pretty decent. Though I do understand that is for easier reading, but certain fancy features of Slavonic stick with me and nothing short of them would fit, although from a practical point of view they would be completely unwanted.

Delodephius wrote:I have never been to much fond of conlangs or auxlangs. I am more interested in creating new stuff for already existing languages that everyone could use. Creating my own language even though it could have a potential of being learned and used by few people is not really appealing to me. It is feels a bit lonely. Numbers play a big role in my language choice. Though I was interested in Old Church Slavonic for a long period I eventually lost interest in it simply because it was too isolated. First of all it was a dead language, second it was a language of religion and I'm not interested in religion at all. The third reason is actually related to for example your Novoslovienskij. Too limited. It can only be understood by Slavs, even if all Slavs for that matter, still just Slavs nonetheless.

I most likely wouldn't bother with Novoslovienskij, a natural Slavic language suits me better I guess. And of course there is also the fact that I don't really like the way Novoslovienskij is written, well the Cyrillic version anyway, the Latin one is pretty decent. Though I do understand that is for easier reading, but certain fancy features of Slavonic stick with me and nothing short of them would fit, although from a practical point of view they would be completely unwanted.